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Spenser's International Style (Paperback)
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Spenser's International Style (Paperback)
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Why did Spenser write his epic, The Faerie Queene, in stanzas
instead of a classical meter or blank verse? Why did he affect the
vocabulary of medieval poets such as Chaucer? Is there, as
centuries of readers have noticed, something lyrical about
Spenser's epic style, and if so, why? In this accessible and
wide-ranging study, David Scott Wilson-Okamura reframes these
questions in a larger, European context. The first full-length
treatment of Spenser's poetic style in more than four decades, it
shows that Spenser was English without being insular. In his
experiments with style, Spenser faced many of the same problems,
and found some of the same solutions, as poets writing in other
languages. Drawing on classical rhetoric and using concepts that
were developed by literary critics during the Renaissance, this is
an account of long-term, international trends in style, illustrated
with examples from Petrarch, Du Bellay, Ariosto and Tasso.
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